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A major wave of UK business closures by April 2021? The scale of the problem and what can be done

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  • Peter Lambert
  • John Van Reenen

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This report presents an analysis of the financial health of UK businesses, which shows that immediate action is needed to prevent a wave of corporate failure in early April. We cannot delay action. Now is also the moment to consider how we rebuild our economy and society as the welcome vaccination programme rolls out.

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  • Peter Lambert & John Van Reenen, 2021. "A major wave of UK business closures by April 2021? The scale of the problem and what can be done," CEP Covid-19 Analyses cepcovid-19-016, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    • Handle: RePEc:cep:cepcvd:cepcovid-19-016
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    1. Josh De Lyon & Swati Dhingra, 2021. "The impacts of Covid-19 and Brexit on the UK economy: early evidence in 2021," CEP Covid-19 Analyses cepcovid-19-021, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    2. Juliana Oliveira-Cunha & Capucine Riom & Anna Valero, 2021. "The business response to Covid-19 one year on: findings from the second wave of the CEP-CBI survey on technology adoption," CEP Covid-19 Analyses cepcovid-19-024, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.

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    Covid-19; productivity; growth; innovation;
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